Published 26 February 2024 Photo: Mostphotos Recommendations from the WHO on limiting screen time for children under the age of five are almost impossible to follow, and risk causing unnecessary anxiety and stigmatisation of parents of young children. This according to a study from Lund University in Sweden on the digital media habits of young children. Instead, the researchers recommend that pare

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/recommendations-young-childrens-screen-time-do-more-harm-good - 2025-04-02

Published 27 February 2024 Rock formations with basalt Léa Lévy, researcher in engineering geology at Lund University, is receiving SEK 5.1 million from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation to investigate how much hope can be placed in capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and storing it in the rock basalt. Can you tell us a bit about your project, what you are researching?“More

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/will-carbon-capture-stored-basalt-be-climate-savior - 2025-04-02

Published 1 March 2024 Part of the simulated universe. In the center, a galaxy is born through gas that later transforms into stars. The whole process takes billions of years but is simulated in just a few months by supercomputers (Photo: The AGORA Collaboration) Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. Bu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-insights-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2025-04-02

Published 6 March 2024 Edvin Bågenholm-Ruuth At present, viscose textiles are made of biomass from the forest, and there is no such thing as fully recycled viscose. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now succeeded in making new viscose – from worn-out cotton sheets. Old textiles around the world end up at the rubbish tip and are often burned. In Sweden, they are generally burned to prod

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/completely-recycled-viscose-first-time - 2025-04-02

Published 20 March 2024 Photo: Arne Trautmann/Mostphotos Many of us know that Finland is steadily ranked as the happiest country in the world. The basis for this is the annual World Happiness Report, which is based on a simple question about happiness asked to people around the world. However, a new study led by Lund University in Sweden suggests that it makes people think more about power and wea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/world-happiness-report-why-we-might-be-measuring-happiness-wrong - 2025-04-02

Published 26 March 2024 Marie Dacke, Mia Liinason, Heiner Linke, Martin Dribe, Tobias Uller, Vanya Darakchieva and Oksana Mont are the new Wallenberg Scholars Twelve researchers at Lund University have been appointed Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation that supports excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, technology and the natural sciences.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-wallenberg-scholars-are-announced - 2025-04-02

Published 12 April 2024 The large-eyed bristle worm Vanadis has long been of interest to the world’s vision researchers. But the worm has been difficult to study since it lives in the open sea and is active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has completely unique vision. Bristle worms are a group of annelid worms tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2025-04-02

Published 15 April 2024 Photo: Anna-Britta Magnusson/Mostphotos The strong connection between financial problems and mental health issues is well known. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that only one in five young adults could correctly answer three basic questions about inflation, interest rates and risk diversification. At the same time, they are getting more into debt. This, the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alarmingly-low-financial-awareness-among-todays-youth - 2025-04-02

Published 17 April 2024 The team during field work in northern Sweden (Photo: Geerte Fälthammar-de Jong) During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund University in Sweden has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The boreal forests form a single biome that sp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-field-study-shows-how-climate-change-affects-fire-impacted-forests - 2025-04-02

Published 18 April 2024 Lund researchers Thomas Pugh and Raimund Muscheler have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant. Photo: Private/Kenneth Ruona Quaternary geologist Raimund Muscheler and physical geographer Thomas Pugh have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. They will receive EUR 2.5 million each over a five-year period to study historical solar storms and the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-lund-researchers-receive-prestigious-eu-grant - 2025-04-02

Published 29 April 2024 The Hulk-like lizard (Photo: Javier Abalos) Body shape, colour and behaviour often evolve together as species adapt to their environment. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have studied this phenomenon in a specific type of large, bright green and aggressive common wall lizard found near the Mediterranean. They discovered that a unique cell type might have played a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/incredible-hulk-lizard-provides-clues-understanding-evolution - 2025-04-02

Published 6 May 2024 Photo from stem cell transplantation at Skåne University Hospital. Source: Skåne University Hospital. Higher dose cohort initiated after positive early safety evaluation in Parkinson's therapy. After a positive initial safety evaluation, the pioneering STEM-PD clinical trial has advanced to higher dose testing.
STEM-PD is a first-in-human clinical trial testing a new investiga

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/update-stem-pd-clinical-trial-stem-cell-based-transplant-parkinsons-disease - 2025-04-02

Published 14 May 2024 Photo: Emma Kritzberg Climate researchers often emphasise the fact that reducing carbon emissions is in everyone’s best interest, and should involve all of us. But how good are they at minimising their own carbon footprint? A new study carried out jointly by Lund University in Sweden and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland shows that some of them use up half their annua

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conferences-make-scientists-climate-transgressors - 2025-04-02

Published 24 May 2024 A new study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that tattoos could be a risk factor for cancer in the lymphatic system, or lymphoma. Now, the researchers underline the need for more research on the topic. Our knowledge regarding the long-term health effects of tattoos is currently poor, and there is not a lot of research within this area. Now a research group at Lund Univ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/possible-association-between-tattoos-and-lymphoma-revealed - 2025-04-02

Published 4 June 2024 Lund University has risen to 75th place in the prestigious QS annual ranking. This is an improvement of ten spots on the previous year, placing Lund as the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. In addition, the University has been awarded the QS Sustainability Champions Award. QS has published annual university rankings since 2004. On 4 June, QS published its latest

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-ranking-wins-sustainability-award - 2025-04-02

Published 9 June 2024 The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, can spread dengue fever, Zika virus and chikungunya. Photo: James Gathany/CDC/Wikimedia commons. Global warming has meant that diseases such as West Nile fever, NTM infections, and new tick-borne viruses are on their way or have already taken hold in Sweden. People are being affected by new diseases, and challenges for the health sy

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-diseases-tropical-sweden - 2025-04-02

Published 10 June 2024 A record number of doctors received their hat or laurel wreath during the University’s ceremonial highlight of the year – the Doctoral Degree Conferment Ceremony – on 31 May. A total of 266 doctors received their laurel wreath or hat together with 15 honorary doctors. At the same time, 67 doctors became jubilee doctors. A record number of doctorates were conferred this year,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pernilla-august-named-honorary-doctor-lund-university - 2025-04-02

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 18 June 2024 Jonas Ljunggren began to examine the data on historical consumer price indices in several popular databases. He found that in several cases the figures had been distorted compared to what was stated in the original source. (AI-generated image/Firefly) New research from Lund University found several inaccur

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/errors-detected-several-historical-consumer-price-indices - 2025-04-02

Published 11 July 2024 Filipe Pereira and Per Augustsson have been awarded Proof of Concept grants. Photos: Håkan Röjder and Kennet Ruona Per Augustsson at LTH and Filipe Pereira at the Faculty of Medicine have been awarded Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in the first round of 2024. The ERC today announced 100 new Proof of Concept grants, of which a total of three

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-receive-prestigious-erc-grant - 2025-04-02

Published 28 July 2024 Film: Johan Nyman, Lund University. A commercially available blood test has now been trialled in routine healthcare. “The blood test showed about 90% reliability even in primary care. This may have major implications for all those individuals who seek help for memory loss and suspected Alzheimer’s,” say the researchers at Lund University in Sweden behind the study. Alzheimer

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/groundbreaking-alzheimers-blood-test-proves-highly-effective-primary-healthcare - 2025-04-02